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The Ontario Register
40 Loyalists of Sussex County, New Jersey
41
. •· t d in the newspapers lists his name as
although the notice pun e ·ct d in Newtown Township in DANIEL, JOHN and ~LIAM SHANNON
h [3 NE 165] He resl e
George C ever. taxed there in 1774 as George Cee ver. Lieutenant Daniel Shannon enlisted 12 February 1777 in Capt
Sussex County and wa~ t ~ in Capt Silas Hopkins' Company of Joseph Crowell's Company of the New Jersey Volunteers. In May

[Gl\INJ 40:136] He enhs e 2 February 1777 in which month of that year it was recorded on a raster that he was in Sussex
J ey Volunteers on •
the New ers f S sex County including Peter Slack also County recruiting which was certainly a dangerous enterprise.
several other men o us . · B t , On 13th September 1777 he and severa! others, including John
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enlisted Shortly t h erea er he served in Capt BenJamm ar on s Shannon, were apprehended by the whig forces at Piscataway.
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· h taken prisoner 22 August 1777. H1s name
Company but e was Sh ' Bath Daniel and John were described 8t that time as being of
. d' thereafter on the muster rolls of Capt. James aw s
is carne t b 1778 Oxford, Sussex County. [NJSC 38470, 38612] A return of the
"a prisoner with the rebels" through Oc o er .
Company as d h' t b t prisoners in the Morris town goal dated 12 November 1 ï77 lists
tl, he was either exchanged or ma e lS escape a a ou
Apparen .} K ''d. d Daniel Shannon of Oxford, aged 22, who was married. and John
this time as a subsequent muster states that George eeve~ . 1e Shannon of the same place "aged 16 or 17" who lived with his

in General Hospital 24 Dec'r" [1778]. After his death a w1dow parents. [N. J. State Archives, Trenton, Ms Box 11] No further
Keever" was mentioned in July 1779 as a resident of Newtown. mention of John Shannon has been found in records relating to
[3NE544J . Loyalists, and it would appear that after this episode he returned

An account of the Keefer family is given in Edward Mar10n to the home of his parents in Oxford. A John Shannon was men-
Chadwick's Ontarian Families (Toronto, 1898) v. 2, pp. 90-93 tioned in passing in the settlement of an estate in Sussex County

in whic-h it is stated that George Keefer served in "the Rangers" in 1787. [NJA 36:250]
during the Revolutionary War and died while in service. The Apparently news of the capture of Daniel Shannon did not reach

account further states that he was born 1739 in Germany a son the officers of the New Jersey Volunteers as he was listed on
of Samuel Kieffer by his wife Ann Waldruff and that there was the raster of Capt. James Stewart's Company on 8 January 177S

one other son, Jacob. Samuel died when the sons were young, as "deserted." After July of that year, however, Ensign Daniel
and his widowmarried (2) Frederick Saverine. Frederick brought Shannon appears on the raster of Capt Bartholomew Thatcher's
his wife and her two sons by her first marriage to America, and Company and is carried thereon through 1783. No e:'II.'Jllanation

about 1750 they settled near the Paulinskill in Newton, Sussex is forthcoming asto the reason for the lowering of Daniel's rank
County. Jacob Kieffer is sa id to have settled ultimately at Harris- (although it is always possible that two men of the same name
are in vol ved he re).
burg, Pa. where descendants retain the original spelling of the
A Private William Shannon appears for the first :ime on the
name. Kieffer. George Keefer married in 1765 "Mary, or Maria,
raster of Major Thomas Millidge's Company on 3rù November
Conke or Conck" and they in turnhad two sons, George and Jacob
1779 and it was recorded subsequently that he died on the Sth
bath of whom settled in Ontario about 1790. The widow Mary '
of December of that year.
married (2) Michael Teeter who is referred to as a Loyalist,
Mrs. George M. Coffey, 210 Locust Drive, Cranford. X. J .•
and they had a large family although the names of the children
are not stated. provides the information that Daniel Shannon had, among other

children, a son Lanty Shannon who resided in Stamford. Welland
Michael Teeter was a son of Conrad Teeter of Knowlton in
County, Ontario. Two older Shannon's named ~aniel and Lanty
Suss~x County. [NJA 34:518; Sussex County Deeds W2:85] A sis ter
resided in Greenwich, Sussex County, N. J .. pnor to the Revo-
of Michael Teeter' Seveler or Sa villa, married John Muspaugh
(Musbach) who was br ht b f lution. Lanty Shannon of that place was granted a license by t~e
F b 8 oug e ore the Sussex County Court in Sussex County Court at the 1\lay Term, 1 ï6S. to keep a pubhc

fo: ~~:i~: ~:l~:-; wt~h Fredrick Limbock and Fredrick Bloom bouse or inn, and a license was granted to him in each succeed-
fined ~25. e e oath of allegiance for which each was ing year through the May Term 1771 when his n:une drops out of